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The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic church built in the neo-Gothic style in 1887-1892. In the 1930s, the church was closed and rebuilt for secular purposes - it housed, among other things, a cinema for party dignitaries. In 1992, the church was returned to the faithful. Since 2002, it has been the cathedral of the new diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhsky.

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral belongs to the Catholic Church. The cathedral was built between 1844 and 1853. It was Father Grzegorz Razutowicz who took the initiative to build this cathedral. The design was made by the Polish architect Feliks Gąsiorowski, with the help of Italian architect Francesco Morandi. The building is a three-aisled basilica with a dome selected cruise on a cruciform plan. White and gray marble were used inside. The painting on the main altar is an image of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, which is a copy of Raphael.

Tuam Cathedral, built between 1827 and 1837, is one of the finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture in Ireland. The construction of a Catholic cathedral was necessary because the 14th century St Mary's Cathedral had been given over to Anglican worship under Elizabeth I and public Roman Catholic worship had been banned for two hundred years.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin is the first Greek-Catholic church in Bukovyna, built in 1820-21 in the Empire style. Initially named the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, the church was called the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin from 1937. In the early 1940s, the church was already too small for the faithful and was therefore enlarged thanks to a project by Volodymyr Zalozetsky. With the advent of the Bolshevik regime in 1946, worship in Ukrainian Greek-Catholic churches was banned and only reopened in 1990.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is the oldest church in Gorzów Wielkopolski, erected at the end of the 13th century as the town's parish. From the Reformation until 1945, when it was consecrated a Catholic cathedral, the church was a Protestant church. The original form of the church has changed little. A presbytery was added in the 15th century and a baroque helmet on the south tower in the 17th century. More significant changes to the structure of the church took place inside.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was built in the 14th century in Gothic style on the site of an old Romanesque building from the early 13th century. In 1995, the church was declared a national cultural monument.

The Cathedral of the Assumption is the Catholic cathedral of Carlow. Work on the neo-Gothic cathedral began on 7 April 1828 under the supervision of the architect Joseph Lynch, followed in 1829 by Thomas Cobden who modified the plans. It was completed in 1833.

The Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built between 1902 and 1906 on a former 17th-century Catholic church. During the French Revolution, the future Louis XVIII lived in Jelgava with a courtyard, which left the church with very luxurious liturgical utensils. Although it briefly bore the title of cathedral between 1783 and 1798, it was not until 1995 that the church was finally erected as a cathedral.

The Cathedral of the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God, the Orthodox Cathedral of the Diocese of Plovdiv, is a landmark of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, being at the centre of its independence in 1870. At the place where the cathedral was built in 1844, it seems that in the 9th and 10th centuries there was a Christian shrine.

The Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God was the most important Ukrainian Orthodox church in Kharkiv until the construction of the Annunciation Cathedral in 1901. The first mention of the cathedral in written sources dates back to 1658. However, the present cathedral was built in the years 1771-1777 in the style of Russian Baroque. To commemorate the victory over Napoleon, a 90-metre high bell tower was built in the years 1821-1844. In 1929, the atheist authorities closed the cathedral, demolished its domes and removed the bell from the tower. The decorative elements of the façade were also destroyed. In the 1950s, however, several renovations took place. A tornado damaged the tower in 1975.